Animals
Larry’s Diary Week Thirty Seven
Monday What a lovely day yesterday; the sun got a bit too warm for me and I had to retreat from the windowsill to sleep on Bozzie’s office chair, well he isn’t using it just [more…]
NHS
Authoritarianism
We have all become experts
Or have we? In the course of more than four weeks of self/family isolation we have all encountered mountains of speculation on the sources of Covid-19; how it spreads; estimates of its final tally of [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary Week Thirty Four
Monday Good day readers. It’s Monday again and it looks like it’s going to be another busy week from the mutterings I tuned into over breakfast. Bozzie is holding another one of those Cobra meetings [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary Week Thirty Two
Monday A good Monday morning to you all. That was a quick weekend, it seems like only yesterday I was dictating my last diary entry. As usual it was breakfast with the gang, me keeping [more…]
Health
It started with a piss – Part Three
Introduction In Parts 1 and 2 I told the tale of how a routine scan as part of an investigation into a urinary tract infection had revealed a large (63mm) abdominal aortic aneurysm (Triple A) [more…]
Health
It started with a piss – Part Two
First off, aorta explain that the above pun doesn’t really work when the blood vessel that is the subject of these articles is an artery and not a vein but try as I will, I [more…]
Arts
My adventure in A & E
I blame Tom Pudding’s excellent article on his experiences in an NHS hospital for penning this report on my adventure in A & E this June. It started with me having what is called a [more…]
Health
It started with a piss
I don’t know why, but for me medical problems always seem to occur at the most inconvenient times possible, usually on a Saturday evening. And so it was one Saturday in late October 2019 when [more…]
Conservatives
Dear Local MP – At This Special Time
Just to explain, I was more incensed than usual, just very recently, at a propaganda sheet pushed through my letterbox. It was from my local MP, I’ve not named the constituency but it is easily [more…]